ETHANOL tax break extended by Congress. The subsidy costs consumers an estimated $770 million a year, and is particularly profitable for agribusiness giant Archer-Daniels-Midland. The company gave nearly $750,000 in PAC and soft money contributions. "Most prominent recipient of corporate welfare in recent U.S. history".

1997

The New England Journal of Medicine reports today that at least half the drugs donated to Bosnia and Herzegovina during the war, many of them from U.S. companies, were useless and even dangerous, apparently donated largely for the benefit of the company and not the recipients. Not only were 17,000 tons of drugs useless (spoiled, out of date, inappropriate) and not only did most or all of the companies get charitable tax deductions in their own countries, but disposal costs of about $2,000 a ton also fell to the World Health Organization.

1998

The House of Representatives starts impeachment proceedings against President Clinton (D).

Two months after the government recommended that scarce flu shots be reserved for people most at risk, health officials are now worried that tens of thousands of doses could go to waste, and they are considering easing the restrictions.
— DANIEL YEE, Associated Press, 12/16/04 [Solution is obvious: Send the expired stuff to Iraq and get that tax write-off!]